tango
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WASHINGTON—Ever since President Trump returned to office last January, he and the Supreme Court have been locked in an uneasy tango.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In one sequence, a solemn Gregorian chant pivots to a tango as Grace and Rocky’s ships connect airlock-to-airlock in spinning orbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Enter Mr. Hegseth, who takes tango lessons whenever Mr. Trump says dance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
"So this tango will likely continue on for a while."
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Welles cues Bernard Herrmann, and the CBS orchestra plays a Spanish tango.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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Kardashian’s most recent real-life legal tangos includes filing a lawsuit with her mother, Kris Jenner, against ex-boyfriend Ray J for defamation and false-light publicity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
But after twelve weeks of tangos, salsas and foxtrots, this was Ellie and Vito's night.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
He took a warm, supportive but critical approach as he watched celebrities taking on tangos and waltzes, adding a down-to-earth touch to the otherwise frequently flamboyant panel of judges.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023
Throughout, there are waltzes, smoky tangos, airborne flights in all manner of gasp-inducing brilliance from a splendid ensemble swept into motion by Peter Salem’s lush, agitated music, performed live.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
I think of rude tangos and how he used to walk me to Marysia’s apartment in the snow.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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And perhaps even more than in her sticky-sweet pas de deux with Oh, there’s something sorrowful yet hopeful about her unpredictable tangoes with Kim Bodnia, who plays her original handler, Konstantin.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2019
In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At this time he danced the danzon at least as well as Edward of Wales tangoes today, was in fact, a noted cavalier.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sue foxes like she was born in a fox hole under a hollow log, but she tangoes like the original Emperor Tang himself, so go ahead and suit yourself.
From The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess
Gaynor, who famously tangoed with Reiner for her Emmy-winning 1976 special, “Mitzi...Roarin’ in the 20s,” fondly remembered him as “a genius, a good friend, & a true gent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Greens pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm was all but matching Smoltz in excellence, though with pitches that tangoed more than darted.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2020
"All I wanted was a dance party," bassist Este Haim told the BBC afterwards, "and then Glastonbury danced with me. We tangoed."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2017
I tangoed, two-stepped and did the cha-cha as I dealt with embarrassing diarrhea, frequent bowel incontinence and the necessity of knowing the location of a bathroom wherever I went.
From US News ● Mar. 28, 2016
"Sadie Hartmann was sure sore when I tangoed off with him," she would observe reminiscently....
From The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill
However, towards the end of the video, the man is dramatically revealed to be John Travolta, who finishes the clip by tangoing with two women.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2019
If my agent sold my next novel for seven figures, I'd still have burn marks on my arms from tangoing with sheet pans.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2018
Twitter and other social media sites were abuzz with photo-shopped images of Obama tangoing superimposed over scenes of carnage.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2016
In 2000, Rickman appeared as Sharleen Spiteri’s love interest in the music video for Texas’s 2000 hit ‘In Demand’, which involves them tangoing at a petrol station.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016
There were only a few sailors guarding the cargo, and they quickly decided that tangoing with a pack of angry colonists with hatchets was a bad idea and got out of the way.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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